Stand for electric irons



Dec. 28 1926.

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Patented Dec. 28,1926. 1 H UNlTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY TAYLOR, OF WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA.

STAND FOR ELECTRIC IRONS.

Application filed February 10, 1925. Serial No. 8,245.

This invention relates broadly to electric leading to the heating coil or the iron, as heating appliances, and more specifically to ordinarily. a supporting stand for electrically heated Thus, when the movable contact 9 occusad-irons. pies its normal position, shown in Fig. 2 6 The primary object of the invention is to of the drawings, current passes to the heatprovide a supporting stand or rest for elecing coil of the iron which has the plug of tric irons, which embodies means whereby, its attached cord or conduit 12 seated in when an iron is seated thereon, the electric the plug socket 7, the electric circuit comcircuit to the iron is broken, and, when the prising the conductor wire 5, one side of 65 iron is removed from the stand, the circuit the plug socket 7, one of the wires of the is re-estahlished, with the ultimate end in conduit 12, the heating coil of the iron, the view to eliminate the liability to overheatother wire of said conduit, the opposite side ing and resultant fire which arises when an of said plug socket, the conductor wire 10, iron is left unattended with the heating elethe movable contact 9, the fixed contact 8 70 ment turned on. and the wire 6.

In describing the invention in detail, ref- The free end of the movable contact 9 erence is herein had to'the accompanying overlies a port-ion of an angular bar 13 drawings, in which which is hinged or pivoted to a fixed sup- Figure 1 is a view of the invention in port 14 carried at a suitable point interi- 7 top plan with a portion of the cover plate orly of the casing. Said support has its broken away; opposite end pivotally mounted upon a lat- Figure 2 is a longitudinal section showerally disposed arm or terminal member ing the contacts of the stand in circuit clos- 15 formed on the lower end of a downi iti andwardly inclined rod or link 16 which has 80 Figure 3 is a similar view, partially its opposite end pivotally attached to the broken, showing the parts in circuit openfree end of a depressible member 17 which ing position. is normally supported in a position in which Referring to said drawings, 1 indicates it projects above the casing cover 3 through the bottom, 2 the sides, and 3 the top or a suitably located opening 18 in the latter. 30 cover of a casing which forms the body of As herein shown, said member 17 is oi the iron-supporting stand. Said cover 3 elongated form. and has its opposite end is preferably removably mounted upon the pivotally mounted on the under side of said casing walls, as shown, to afford means ol. cover. The portion of said member which ready access to the interior of the casing. projects above the level of the cover is of 35 leading to the interior of the :asing convex form, thus to permit the iron to be through the side walls 2 is a cable 4 einbodyad vanced rmobstructedly thereover by a inp, two conductor wires 5 and 6, said cable sliding movement into seated relation to being adapted for coimection to a service the stand cover. line, as at a light socket (not shown). One The depressible member .17 and the there 40 of said conductor wires, as 5, leads directly to-connected parts are yieldingly supported to one side of a plug socket 7 mounted. in the in their elevated positions by a spiral spring stand. at a convenient point, as in the cas- 19 which, as herein shown, has its upper ing walls 2. The other wire 6 is attached end attached at a fixed point on the under to a statioin-u'y metallic contact 8 carried side of the cover 3 and its lower end at- 0 interiorly oi" the casing. tached. to the arm 15 ot' the link 16. \Vhen Normally held in underlying engagement said member 17 is depressed by a seated with the lixed contact 8 is the free end of iron to the position shown in Fig. 3, the a resilient metal. contact 9 carried by the angular bar 1.3 is swung through the intercasing wall 2, and a conductor wire 10 con mediate link 16 to the lowered. position all nects the movable contact 9 to the opposite shown in. said. figure, allowing the free end side of said, plug socket 7. Said. socket is of the movable contact 9 to spring downada iited for the reception of a plug 11 carward out of engagement with the lined conried by an end. of a flexible cord-like contact 8, thereby to break the electric circuit duit 12 which is attached to a sad-iron or to the iron. Upon the removal of the iron other tool to be heated, said conduit having from the top of the stand, the spring 19 extending therethrough wires (not shown) acts to return the parts to their normal positions, and the contact 9 is returned on the bar 13 into circuit closing engagement with the contact 8 for re-establishing the circuit.

lVhat is claimed is- A stand for electric irons, comprising a casing having associated therewith a socket for the reception of the plug of an electriciron cord, electrical connections within said casing constituting a current path to said socket, said connections comprising a switch which includes a movable contact, a-fixed support underlying said contact, an angular member pivoted to said support and movable to and from a position in which said aesa contact is elevated to switch-closing position, a member mounted on said casing for vertical movement through the top of the latter, a link intermediate the last mentioned member and said pivoted member adapted, when depressed, to move said pivoted member for actuating the movable contact to circuit closing position, and means normally holding said casing-carried member elevated above the level of said casing top.

Intestimony whereof, I afiix my signature.

HARRY TAYLOR. 

